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WordPress Starter Theme for use as a starting template for building custom themes. Uses SCSS, Normalize, AutoPrefixr, Grunt for compilation/linting/deployments, and BrowserSync for cross-device auto refreshing.

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WordPress Starter Theme

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Summary

WordPress Starter Theme for use as a starting template for building custom themes. Uses SCSS and AutoPrefixr, HTML5 Boilerplate with Modernizr and Normalize.css, and Grunt for all processing tasks. Syncs changes across local development devices with BrowserSync. Tested up to WordPress 4.0 RC1.

Usage

The theme is setup to use Grunt to compile SCSS (with source maps), run it through AutoPrefixr, lint, concatenate and minify JavaScript (with source maps), optimize images, and syncs changes across local development devices with BrowserSync, with flexibility to add any additional tasks via the Gruntfile. Alternatively, you can use CodeKit or whatever else you prefer to compile the SCSS and manage the JavaScript.

Rename folder to your theme name, change the style.scss intro block to your theme information. Open the theme directory in terminal and run npm install to pull in all Grunt dependencies. Run grunt to execute tasks. Code as you will.

If you are using MAMP or Vagrant, change the proxy option in the grunt browserSync task to match your vhost URL.

Compile assets/styles/style.scss to style.css

Compile assets/styles/editor-style.scss to editor-style.css

Concatenate and minify plugins in assets/js/vendor and assets/js/source/plugins.js to assets/js/plugins.min.js

Minify and lint assets/js/source/main.js to assets/js/main.min.js

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To concatenate and minify your jQuery plugins, add them to the assets/js/vendor directory and add the js filename and path to the Gruntfileuglify task. Previous versions of the starter theme automatically pulled all plugins in the vendor directory, but this has changed to allow more granular control and for managing plugins and assets with bower.

Bower

Supports bower to install and manage JavaScript dependencies in the assets/js/vendor folder.

Deployment

The theme includes deployments via grunt-rsync. The Gruntfile includes setups for staging and production - edit your paths and host, then run grunt deploy:staging or grunt deploy:production to deploy your files via rsync.

Features

Normalized stylesheet for cross-browser compatibility using Normalize.css version 3 (IE8+)